Program
Conference outline
Below is the conference program. You can download a PDF version also.
International Conference on Freedom of Information: the Right to Know, 1-3 May 2010, Brisbane, Australia.
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Saturday 1 May 2010 |
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08:00 - 18:00 |
All-day Earlybird WPF Day Registration (The UQ Centre and Rydges Hotel) World Press Freedom Day Pre-conference Parallel Workshops
Workshop I |
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10:00 - 17:00 |
Masterclass on Freedom of Information Laws and Issues
Moderator: Rhonda Breit, Senior Lecturer, School of Journalism, University of Queensland
Keynote address: Julie Kinross, Information Commissioner, Queensland |
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Panel: Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy, Canada Rick Snell, Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania Michael McKinnon, FOI Editor, Seven Network, Australia Asia-Pacific Roundtable: Chronox Manek, Chief Ombudsman, Papua New Guinea Katherine Le Roy, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, Republic of Nauru Marie-Noelle Ferrieux-Patterson, President, Transparency International (Vanuatu Branch), Vanuatu Janet Maki, Ombudsman, Cook Islands Gabriel Suri, Attorney-General, Solomon Islands Hila Asanuma, Director, Ministry of State, Office of the Attorney-General, Government of Palau Jajang Jamaludin, Secretary-General, Alliance of Independent Journalists Indonesia (AJI), Indonesia Roby Alampay, Executive-Director, South-East Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Thailand Virgilio Guterres, President of the Journalism Association of Timor-Leste, Timor-Leste Workshop II |
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09:00 - 18:00 |
Indigenous Voices Forum Moderator: Michael Williams, Executive Manager, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland Keynote address: Paul Cutler, Director, News and Current Affairs, SBS, Australia Presenters: Heaton Dyer, CBC, Canada Patrick Malone, AICA Linda Chellew, IRCA Nelson Conboy, ICTV Antonia Gonzales, National Native News Duncan McCue, CBC, Canada Susan Moylan-Coombs, Executive Producer, Indigenous Programs Unit, ABC-TV, Australia Michelle Lovegrove, Executive Producer, Aboriginal Program, SBS, Australia Tanya Denning. NITV, Australia Amy McQuire, Editor, national Indigenous Times, Australia Matthew Leonard. NIRS, Australia Nicola Joseph, National Training Program, Australia Lynda McCaffery, Batchelor Institute, Australia Trevor Cullen, Edith Cowan University, Australia Brenda Nadjiwan, SABAR, Canada Minelle Mahtani, University of Toronto, Canada Carol van Valkenburg, University of Montana, USA Gail Phillips, Murdoch University, Australia Michelle Johnston, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Te Anga Nathan, General Manager, News and Current Affairs, Maori TV, New Zealand |
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18:00 -20:00 |
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Sunday 2 May 2010 |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Registration | ||
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09:00 - 10:30 |
Formal Public Opening Ceremony | ||
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Moderator: Michael Bromley, Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland | ||
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National Anthem | ||
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Video welcome presentation |
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Indigenous cultural welcome: Nunukul Yuggera Group |
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Welcome: Major-General Maurie McNarn AO (Retd.), Acting Vice-Chancellor and Executive Director (Operations), University of Queensland |
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Opening Remarks: Cameron Dick, Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, State Government of Queensland |
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Address: H. E. Ms Penelope Wensley, Governor of Queensland |
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The University of Queensland Centenary Oration for World Press Freedom Day Title: Freedom of Information: the Right to Know Speaker: Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO |
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10:30-11:00 |
Refreshments break |
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11:00-12:30 |
Plenary Session 1 Title: Freedom of Information: current status, challenges and implications for news media |
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Moderator: Frank La Rue, Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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Panel: John McMillan, Australian Information Commissioner Chronox Manek, Chief Ombudsman, Papua New Guinea Edetaen Ojo, Executive Director Media Rights Agenda, Nigeria
Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy, Canada |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:30 |
Parallel Sessions Session 1: Journalists under Pressure: Experiences from the frontline |
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Moderator: Chris Masters, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland |
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Panel: Dan Southerland, Executive Director, Radio Free Asia Zuhair Al-Jezairy, Director, Aswat al-Iraq, Iraq Valentina Al-Ama, Communication and Project Director, Ma'an News Network, Palestine Nigel Brennan, freelance photojournalist, recently held hostage for 15 months in Somalia Robert Mukombozi, investigative journalist, Rwanda |
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Session 2: Threats to Media Freedom and Freedom of Information in the South Pacific |
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Moderator: Ashley Wickham, former General Manager of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, Solomon Islands |
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Panel: Sophie Foster, Fiji Times, Fiji Savea Sano Malifa, Samoa Observer, Samoa Susuve Laumaea, Co-Chair of the Pacific Freedom Forum, Papua New Guinea Lisa Williams-Lahari, Founding Member, Wave and Pacific Freedom Forum,Cook Islands Marie-Noelle Ferrieux-Patterson, President, Transparency International (Vanuatu Branch), Vanuatu. |
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15:30-16:00 |
Refreshments break |
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16:00-17:30 |
Plenary Session 2 Title: Freedom of Information as a tool for empowerment: Enabling protection and achievement of other rights |
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Moderator: Ulla Carlsson, Director of Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research) at Göteborg University, Sweden |
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Panel: Senator Joe Ludwig, Cabinet Secretary and Special Minister of State,federal Government of Australia David Banisar, Senior Legal Counsel, Article 19, United Kingdom Ramzi Khoury, Strategic Communications Consultant; CEO, Strategy Falcons Ltd. of Dubai, United Arabic Emirates Taranath Dahal, Chairperson,Freedom Forum,Nepal P.V Satheesh, Director,Deccan Development Society, India |
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18:30 - 21:00 |
South Pacific Soiree A fun-filled night celebrating journalism and press freedom |
Monday 3 May 2010
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09:00-10:30 |
Plenary Session 3 Title: Transparency, accountability and the fight against corruption: Freedom of Information laws and beyond |
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Moderator: Aidan White, General-Secretary, International Federation of Journalists, Belgium |
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Panel: Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Secretary, Union of Journalists, Russia Alvaro Herrero, Executive Director, Association for Civil Rights, Argentina Rozlana Taukina, President of the Journalists in Danger Fund and former President of the Association of Independent Electronic Mass Media in Central Asia (ANESMICA), Kazakhstan Atmakusumah Astraatmadja, Media Observer, Columnist and former chair of the Independent press council of Indonesia |
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10:30-11:00 |
Refreshments |
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11:00-12:30 |
Plenary Session 4 Title: The Right to Know in a Digital Age This session will be recorded for national radio broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Moderator:Paul Barclay, Presenter, ABC Radio National's Australia Talks |
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Panel: Guy Berger,Head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Editor-in-chief, Der standard, Austria Francis Herman, Former General Manager, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation; Adviser, Vanuatu Broadcasting Corporation Premesh Chandran, Co-founder and CEO of Malaysiankini.com, Malaysia |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:00 |
Adoption of Brisbane Declaration |
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Moderator: Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO |
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Panel: Drafting Commission Guest: Councillor David McLachlan, Brisbane,City Council |
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15:00-17:30 |
WPF Day Prize Award Ceremony and Conference Closing |
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Moderator: Martin Hadlow, Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Deputy Chair, Australian National Commission for UNESCO,Convenor,World Press Freedom Day Conference 2010 One minute of silence in Memory of Journalists and other media professionals who have lost their lives in the line of duty |
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Speakers: Michael Bromley,Professor and Head of School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland Fernando Cano Busquets, Guillermo Cano Foundation Representative Joergen Ejboel, Chairman of the Board, Jyllands Posten/Politiken Newspapers, Ltd Representative of the Nicholas B.Ottaway Foundation Joe Thloloe, President of the Jury of the World Press Freedom Prize, Press Ombudsman, Press Council of South Africa Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize Laureate Monica Gonzalez, Director, Center of Journalism and Investigation (CIPER), Chile |
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17:30 |
Farewell cocktail function |
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Hosted By
Expelled journalist tells his tale
Investigative journalist Robert Mukombozi has been arrested, kidnapped and shot at. In April 2008 he was deemed persona non grata and given five minutes to leave Rwandan soil. He has not seen his family since. Hear his tale of press freedom in our interactive timeline.
